278 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Myosotis. 
Stems four to six inches high, with patent hairs. Flowers so compact as to 
be almost capitate, afterwards lengthened into racemes. Pedicels after 
flowering erect, in fruit patent, a little longer than the calyx. Flowers 
large, very bright blue; Hook, as ornamental as in M. palustris, (from 
which none can be more distinct), pale pink in the bud, valves white. Sm. 
Professor Hooker further observes, that the alpine situations and general 
habit point out this plant as distinct. “ There is a striking resemblance 
between it and M. sylvatica of Lehmann and Hook. FI. Scot., but the 
shortness and denseness of the raceme in M. alpestris, approaching even 
to the appearance of a corymb, and the greater size of the flowers which 
compose it, though belonging to an individual of more diminutive stature 
than M. sylvatica , indicate a considerable difference.” 
Rock Scorpion-grass. M. alpestris. Lehm. M.rupicola. E. Bot. On 
the higher mountains of Scotland, not uncommon. Mr. G. Don. Ben 
Lawers, near the summit, plentiful. Schehallion, and others of the 
Breadalbane range. Hooker. P. July—Aug. E.) 
(2) (Roots annual. E.) 
M. arven'sis. (Seeds smooth: leaves hairy, oblongo-lanceolate, 
radical ones but half the length of their foot-stalks: racemes 
forked at the base, leafless: calyx deeply five-cleft, clothed with 
upright hairs, the lowermost incurved: root fibrous, tufted. 
Sm. E.) 
(E. Bot. 480. E.) Kniph. 11. M. arvensis — Ray Syn. 9. 2. at p. 128— JDod. 
72—Lob. Obs. 245. 4 —Ger. Em. 337. 4 —Park. 691. 7 —H. Ox. xi. 31. 
row 2. 1— J. B. iii. 589. 2— Wale. 5. 
(Stem three to eight inches high, the lowermost leaves stalked, ob-ovate, 
the others sessile. Racemes many-flowered, at first small, compact, and 
revolute, but much elongated, and quite erect, when in fruit; a trans¬ 
formation also observable in other species. Valves of the bloss. nearly 
sunk in the tube. The smaller flowers and annual roots are the peculiar 
characteristics of this species. E.) 
Field Scorpion-grass. (Irish: Lus Miule. Welsh: Ysgorpionllys y 
meus-ydd. E.) Myosotis scorpioides, a arvensis. Linn. (FI. Brit. E.) 
Walls, dry pastures, gardens, and sandy places. A. June—Aug. 
(M. versi'color. Seeds smooth: leaves hairy: clusters on long, 
naked stalks: calyx longer than the partial stalks; hairs of its 
tube hooked: root fibrous. 
E. Bot. 480./. 1. 
Stem usually three or four inches high, but in marshy places much more 
luxuriant. Leaves rather narrower than in M. arvensis. Flowei's very 
small, yellow and blue; (according to Lehmann), retaining their re¬ 
spective colours: remarkable also for short pedicels. Large specimens 
much branched, the racemes themselves extending to eight inches. Grev. 
Yellow and Blue Scorpion-grass. In dry fields and moist meadows ; 
also on walls, not uncommon. M. versicolor. Pers. Lehm. Sm. M. ar¬ 
vensis (3. Roth. M. scorpioides (3. FI. Brit. Huds. Relh. M. scor¬ 
pioides y. Linn. A. April —June. E.) 
